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Les...
 
Are you actually looking for Susan McGinnis?  Because if you are, you  have 
to look under several different surnames.  For example, In 1930 she is  in 
Coaledo, Coos County as Susie E. Campion with her husband, Fred A. Campion  and 
son Virgil.  Before that, in the 1910 cenus she was Susan  Jones in Azalea as 
head of household.  She also appears as Susa Jones and  Susie Jones.  I also 
have her listed under the surname Clement but no  further information or 
verification.  There is something rather  odd also, because she was the guardian of 
Sanford G. Jones on his  application for veteran's benefits and her name was 
listed as Susan Jones  Campion so it appears that she might have been the 
guardian for her  ex-husband.  Since both Sanford Jones and Fred Campion show 
connections to  the Oregon coast, you might have luck looking in Coos  County records 
for  information.
 
The question in all this is where were her children?
 
Your niece e-mailed me last week and I'm going to send her what I have  
(including the grave stone photos of the cemetery on  Vernie Lerwill's old  ranch) 
as soon as I get back to Alaska.
 
Let me know exactly what you are looking for with regard to Susan.  I  
haven't been able to find Marcellus (Marcellis, Marcel, etc.) but I do have a  note 
that he died before 1932...unverified and I'm not sure where.
 
I suspect that Marcel might have been in Umatilla because his son Joseph A.  
Rondeau was married to Eva L. Lavadore (I've changed every spelling I find of  
this name to Lavadore...just so that my genealogy program will sort and 
merge!)  and in the census as "son-in-law" in the household of Joseph Lavadore in  
Umatilla.
 
One of the problems with documenting the history of these families is that  
fable became tangled with fact in a big way during the time that they were  
trying to show descent from the original Cow Creek Tribe.  I've yet to find  a 
documented connection between any of these familes and the Cow Creeks.   John 
Dellenbach introduced legislation to recognize these families as a  "historic 
successor tribe" to the Cow Creeks after BIA opposed their recognition  because 
they were not Cow Creek descendents.  Still the Cow Creek  myths are 
perpetuated, but if real research is going to be done (which is should  be, because 
these early settlers were historically important in their own  right) it needs to 
be done from the records and in the areas (and tribes) where  these people 
were actually from.
 
My understanding is that some of these families were following  gold strikes 
or mining activities.  Which would explain why they were at  Milo/Perdue 
(Coffee Creek) and also in the Azalea area, Wolf Creek area, and  along Cow Creek.  
You will note that the occupations of some of the  neighboring households in 
the census in these areas are listed as  "miners".
 
I'm in Kirkland, Washington in the moment.  I had a business meeting  in San 
Diego. I usually tack a week or so of personal leave on so that I can  rent a 
car at SeaTac airport and visit my son in Redmond then drive down to S.  
Oregon.  I'm headed for Canyonville this morning.  Maybe I'll  make time to do some 
sleuthing while I'm there for a week.
 
Tell me specifically what you'd like to have and I'll e-mail it to you if I  
have it.
 
Carla
 
 
 
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